Unfortunately, this has been the trend over the past year.  Hackers will find completely legitimate sites (which can be in any niche or topic) with easily exploitable vulnerabilities and inject malware into them.  Upon doing this, any user who accesses the web site will automatically be served the malware that was installed by the hacker(s).  […]

After reading this article’s title, I must admit that I was intrigued to see what this was all about.  It looks like the NSA has developed a zero-day attack platform in which it is hiring various talents to construct malware.  One of which (who was sent to prison for 7 years because of his malware) […]

Yup, it’s true.  The computer security software developer PC Tools has discovered that various hacking products are being sold in DVD format on eBay.  Apparently, these DVDs come with a wide variety of tools that can be used almost instantaneously.  Knowing about how large typical security/pentest tools are in size, one of these DVDs could […]

A lot of people may think that computer criminals consist of people that went to top-tier schools and graduated at the top of their class, but is that really the case?  After all, a lot of scams out there today are incredibly sophisticated which have fooled even the most savvy of computer users.  So who […]

The results of this report were very interesting and honestly surprised me. Not only were malicious tactics covered, but the report also talked about secure operating systems and browsers. This report seems to be changing the paradigm on a couple of things: Internet Explorer will become more secure than Firefox and the idea […]

Back in July, there were some patches issued to fix some vulnerabilities in various areas of Firefox, but from the sound of things, they weren’t able to fix everything. There are some protocol-based vulnerabilities that people can take advantage of via Firefox. Through this vulnerability, hackers and the like would be able to […]

Many people remember the whole fiasco with Sony in regards to them putting rootkits on a variety of music CD’s which automatically installed themselves when people use the CD’s in their computer. You would think that Sony would have learned from this incident, but I guess they didn’t. Recently, they started selling a […]

Seeing how widely successful malware continues to be, some people may wonder as to why these developers would try to use new propagation channels. The answer really lies in itself; it’s because the propagation channels are relatively new. When it comes to new technology, there will always be bugs and vulnerabilities that malware […]

This was a pretty interesting survey, even though the article was somewhat directed towards that lack of credit card fraud and identity theft in India.  The thing I found interesting is that in this one conducted survey, up to 83% of people in the United States were familiar with phishing scams.  In addition, 91% of […]

While China is the most populated country in the world, it can also be known for one more thing: having the most amount of computers compromised from hackers and malware. This is a pretty scary thing when you realize China’s population now parallels their compromised computers. Whatever hacker(s) control these computers now has quite a […]